Warner's DD = Warners DD+ : Both are 640 Mb/s 5.1

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

I'm sorry Jaded, but the 1.5 mbps DD+ soundtracks are FAR superior to the 640k Dolby Digital titles on Blu-ray.
~Alan

To each there own, I suppose. There are a lot of factors that potentially go into which lossy sound format will sound better -- and it varies from system to system. Obviously, a 1.5M stream contains more information than a 640k stream, but that doesn't necessarily mean it sounds better. Many surround sound processors can do some pretty amazing DSP on regular DD and DTS streams that will make those preferable to other lossy codecs that need to be decoded in the player and output as analog or PCM to the receiver. Personally, I don't think DD+ should exist... the trade-offs are too great for not nearly enough potential benefit.

They managed to accomplish in 2006 what DTS did over a decade earlier -- only, DTS's solution can be sent over optical and properly handled by most every receiver out there. DD+, not so much.